View full sizeAllan Brettman / The OregonianThousands of push pins form this message for the approximately 600 employees in the Pearl District office of Portland-based Wieden+Kennedy. Two advertising organizations have designated the worldwide agency for another industry honor.

Legacy at stake: Leave it to a 10-year-old to spin some perspective into the Lance Armstrong affair and the retired cyclist's alleged use of performance enhancing drugs. This is clear-eyed essay from Armstrong admirer Simon Usborne of The Independent in a British national morning newspaper published in London. It manages to remind you of the particulars of Armstrong's extraordinary story that go far beyond seven Tour de France victories. Usborne is among those who wonder still how they will weigh that story against incontrovertible proof that Armstrong doped, if that proof should exist and ever emerge. Judging from the reader remarks, there are plenty of people -- at least in the United Kingdom -- who are unswayed by the "60 Minutes" piece and other reports about Armstrong's alleged use of performance enhancers.

Tiger's future: There's a building on the Nike world headquarters campus named for Tiger Woods. Will he soon join the ranks of the other athletes who have had buildings named for them on the Nike campus? In other words, will Tiger soon join the ranks of the retired? With his announcement Tuesday that he would not play in the U.S. Open, it's a legitimate questions, says Monte Burke of Forbes magazine.

W+K honors: Who needs to wait until December to declare advertising agency of the year? As this story from "marketwire" reports, two advertising and design organizations, The One Club and D&AD, have named leading contenders to be top agency of the year. The leading contender for "Top Agency Overall and Top Client"? That would be Portland-based Wieden+Kennedy and long-time client, Nike. In addition, W+K spokeswoman Katie Abrahamson reports the agency has been bestowed with other awards recently:

L'affaires Giggs: Unlike millions of soccer fans worldwide, I'd never heard of Ryan Giggs of Manchester United until Tuesday. To further my humiliation, it took Giggs' humiliation to put him on the radar. Giggs has an endorsement deal with Adidas-owned Reebok; Nike outfits Manchester United. Behold, another entry from the British tabloid, The Daily Mirror, about l'affaires Giggs.